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For the past six months, to think of Alburtis has meant to think of unsolved murder. It has meant to think of a white home at 122 Cobblestone Court, with a defenseless woman and her daughter inside. It has meant Althea. It has meant Jeannette. In the days after the borough's police chief responded to a call at the home on March 11 and found two of the borough's most well-known and colorful residents murdered inside, life in Alburtis, the smallest municipality in Lehigh County, changed. Residents stopped leaving doors and windows open. Trust in visitors — and sometimes neighbors — was shaken. Rumor was treated as fact. Few details about the killings have been...

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For the past six months, to think of Alburtis has meant to think of unsolved murder.
It has meant to think of a white home at 122 Cobblestone Court, with a defenseless woman and her daughter inside.
It has meant Althea. It has meant Jeannette.
In the...

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